{"id":215,"date":"2015-01-15T10:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T10:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/2015\/01\/15\/pivot-point-for-orbit-of-point-clouds-in-autocad-and-autocad-civil-3d\/"},"modified":"2015-01-15T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T10:18:36","slug":"pivot-point-for-orbit-of-point-clouds-in-autocad-and-autocad-civil-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/2015\/01\/15\/pivot-point-for-orbit-of-point-clouds-in-autocad-and-autocad-civil-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivot point for Orbit of Point Clouds in AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of using point clouds over the past years (you might have noticed)<\/p>\n<p>With the capability of AutoCAD and the Recap engine making using point clouds in AutoCAD a very easy and capable feature.<\/p>\n<p>However using more longer linear type point clouds, say that have been captured using mobile technology, my example below was captured by Topcon IPS2 equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Orbit of this long point cloud you can see in the video that is orbits around the centroid of the point cloud object and not at the cursor position.<\/p>\n<p>So changing this system variable ORBITAUTOTARGET and setting the value to 0, will change the pivot to the position of your cursor and is perfect for this use.<\/p>\n<p>Check this <a href=\"https:\/\/screencast.autodesk.com\" target=\"_blank\">SCREENCAST<\/a> to watch this in action<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of using point clouds over the past years (you might have noticed)<\/p>\n<p>With the capability of AutoCAD and the Recap engine making using point clouds in AutoCAD a very easy and capable feature.<\/p>\n<p>However using more longer linear type point clouds,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reality-capture","category-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/from-the-ground-up\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}